{"id":23970,"date":"2020-07-09T17:23:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T14:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/student-who-collected-garbage-to-pay-for-college-admitted-to-harvard-law\/"},"modified":"2020-07-09T17:23:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-09T14:23:00","slug":"student-who-collected-garbage-to-pay-for-college-admitted-to-harvard-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/student-who-collected-garbage-to-pay-for-college-admitted-to-harvard-law\/","title":{"rendered":"#Student who collected garbage to pay for college admitted to Harvard Law"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Student who collected garbage to pay for college admitted to Harvard Law<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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July 9, 2020 |<\/span> 10:23am |<\/span> Updated July 9, 2020 | 10:27am<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n One man\u2019s trash became this student\u2019s treasure.<\/p>\n

A 24-year-old Maryland man has been accepted into Harvard Law School after working as a garbage collector for three years to pay for his education.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had to go to the \u2018bottom\u2019 of the social<\/a> hierarchy \u2014 that\u2019s to say formerly incarcerated sanitation workers \u2014 in order to be uplifted,\u201d Rehan Staton told CNN.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s an accomplishment Staton never imagined was possible.<\/p>\n

Staton had struggled to find security since he was 8 years old, when his mother abandoned him, his brother and his father. Things got worse when Staton\u2019s father lost his job, and had to pick up three others at once to pay the bills.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere were often times without food on the table and no electricity in the house,\u201d Staton told the Washington Post. \u201cThat was common throughout my childhood.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2018No one can promise that life will be fair \u2014 but if you keep your eyes on the prize, everything will fall into place.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

School wasn\u2019t any better than home. His grades weren\u2019t strong, and teachers gave up on him, going so far as to call him \u201chandicapp<\/a>ed,\u201d he said. When it was suggested he be placed in remedial classes, Staton\u2019s father found him a tutor at a community center.<\/p>\n

\u201cI ended up getting on the honor roll the rest of that year,\u201d Staton said. \u201cThe same teacher who suggested I be placed in special education actually wrote my dad an apology note.\u201d<\/p>\n

Staton turned to athletics to keep him, and his grades, in shape. Through high school, he hoped to become a professional boxer after graduation \u2014 until a devastating injury to his shoulder forced him to put down his gloves for good. \u201cI couldn\u2019t go to the doctor, because we didn\u2019t have health insurance,\u201d Staton said. \u201cI was crushed.\u201d<\/p>\n

With low SAT scores, he was rejected from every college he applied to. That\u2019s when Staton got a job at Bates Trucking & Trash Removal. His new colleagues gave him the support he needed. \u201cIt was the first time in my life people were lifting me up for the sake of lifting me up and not because I was good at sports,\u201d he told CNN.<\/p>\n

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The son of the company\u2019s owner introduced Staton to a professor at Bowie State University. Impressed with the young sanitation worker, the professor helped Staton appeal to the school\u2019s board of admissions. It worked: He started undergrad classes later that year.<\/p>\n

\u201cI got a 4.0 GPA, I had a supportive community and I became the president of organizations,\u201d said Staton. Staton\u2019s brother, Reggie, was also enrolled at Bowie State at the time but decided to drop out and work at the same trash company to support his brother.<\/p>\n

After two years, Staton transferred to the University of Maryland. His father suffered a stroke, so the future law student continued to do sanitation work to pay the medical bills. Starting at 4 a.m., he would be hauling trash into a truck before class. Sometimes there wouldn\u2019t be enough time for Staton to shower after work, and he would sit in the back of the classroom to hide.<\/p>\n

In December 2018, Staton graduated and was asked to be his class\u2019 commencement speaker. He ditched the neon vest for a suit, taking a job at the Robert Bobb Group, a consulting firm. He took the LSATs while working full time.<\/p>\n

In March, the acceptance letters rolled in: In addition to Harvard Law, Staton was offered admission to Columbia University, University of Southern California, University of Pennsylvania and Pepperdine University.<\/p>\n

Staton will start online classes at Harvard this fall. He\u2019ll specialize in sports law and hopes to become an agent. A GoFundMe to cover his tuition has been set up, and as of Thursday morning, it had raised almost $74,000.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo one can promise that life will be fair \u2014 but if you keep your eyes on the prize, everything will fall into place,\u201d said Staton.<\/p>\n

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